About This Statistic. This statistic shows the dollar sales of ice cream in the United States in 2017, by type. The sales of ice cream amounted to approximately 6.6 billion U.S. dollars in the 52 weeks ending May 27, 2017.
DEFINITION of 'Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)'. An ETF, or exchange traded fund, is a marketable security that tracks an index, a commodity, bonds, or a basket of assets like an index fund. Unlike mutual funds, an ETF trades like a common stock on a stock exchange. ETFs experience price changes throughout the day as they are bought and sold.
About Leveraged ETFs. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are traded on a stock exchange. They allow individual investors to benefit from economies of scale by spreading administration and transaction costs over a large number of investors. Leveraged funds have been available since at least the early 1990s.